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Western Star, issue 4, September 10, 1950
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GALAXY, MARVEL Etc. . . . We understand that AMAZING postponed its plans for going slick indefinitely, because of the war-inspired paper shortage. At this date, Horace Gold's GALAXY should be on sale. We have seen one copy, and it looks much better than ASF has been in many a year, but to this date, it hasn't hit the newsstands. Contents for No. 1 include: Time Quarry, Clifford Simak. The Stars Are the Styx, Theodore Sturgeon. Contagion, Katherine MacLean. Third from the Sun, Richard Matheson. Later Than You Think, Fritz Leiber. The Last Martian, Ted Brown. Darwinian Pool Room, Isaac Asmiov. Also along with every other issue of GALAXY, under separate cover there will be a mag sized reprint of a fantasy book. First one is SINISTER BARRIER. There is another thing on the stands called MARVEL SCIENCE STORIES, and the less said of that the better. "T.S., OLD MAN". . . . . . . Perhaps you haven't been so lucky as to have heard of the Tellurian Sciencefictioneers as yet. No doubt you will hear of them if you had previously heard of the Universal Musketeers. This is another of those super-ambitious, super-pretentious, super gosh-wow fan organizations that always manages to lay a lot of smoke over a minimum of fire. The T.S. (read: Bill Knapheide) are having a feuding match with the Musketeers, from which they're splinterred off, and it looks as if the insults will fly thick and fast. The T. Sers[[?]], who seem blandly ignorant of any innuendo inherent in their title, had handed out fifteen membership cards before Portland, and Knapheide managed to bulldoze some twenty conventioneers (including Degler) into signing up. Actually it is another of those paper organizations in which membership amounts to exactly nothing. Chief priviledges offered to members in the T.S. library, owned by Jack Schwab of Porthsmouth, Va. However, Bill isn't sure how big the library is, what if anything it has in it, or whether it will actually be available fr use by T.S. members. However, founder Knapheide has high and mighty ambitions: Quoth he, "T.S. as an international fan club is going to do the same job on an international scale that the Little Men have been trying to do on a local level, i.e., to raise the intellectual level of fandom. We hope to give the NFFF an intellectual run for their money. Knapheide by the way considers Ed Hamilton's CAPTAIN FUTURE series as the tops in literate science fiction. ON CLAUDE DEGLER Seven years ago, a young man who used several pseudonyms in addition to the name above which may be legally his made a "goodwill tour of fandom" for the benefit of a new organization called the Cosmic Circle. As a result of his little jaunt, he was tossed out of half the fan clubs and homes in the USA, --- 9 ---
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GALAXY, MARVEL Etc. . . . We understand that AMAZING postponed its plans for going slick indefinitely, because of the war-inspired paper shortage. At this date, Horace Gold's GALAXY should be on sale. We have seen one copy, and it looks much better than ASF has been in many a year, but to this date, it hasn't hit the newsstands. Contents for No. 1 include: Time Quarry, Clifford Simak. The Stars Are the Styx, Theodore Sturgeon. Contagion, Katherine MacLean. Third from the Sun, Richard Matheson. Later Than You Think, Fritz Leiber. The Last Martian, Ted Brown. Darwinian Pool Room, Isaac Asmiov. Also along with every other issue of GALAXY, under separate cover there will be a mag sized reprint of a fantasy book. First one is SINISTER BARRIER. There is another thing on the stands called MARVEL SCIENCE STORIES, and the less said of that the better. "T.S., OLD MAN". . . . . . . Perhaps you haven't been so lucky as to have heard of the Tellurian Sciencefictioneers as yet. No doubt you will hear of them if you had previously heard of the Universal Musketeers. This is another of those super-ambitious, super-pretentious, super gosh-wow fan organizations that always manages to lay a lot of smoke over a minimum of fire. The T.S. (read: Bill Knapheide) are having a feuding match with the Musketeers, from which they're splinterred off, and it looks as if the insults will fly thick and fast. The T. Sers[[?]], who seem blandly ignorant of any innuendo inherent in their title, had handed out fifteen membership cards before Portland, and Knapheide managed to bulldoze some twenty conventioneers (including Degler) into signing up. Actually it is another of those paper organizations in which membership amounts to exactly nothing. Chief priviledges offered to members in the T.S. library, owned by Jack Schwab of Porthsmouth, Va. However, Bill isn't sure how big the library is, what if anything it has in it, or whether it will actually be available fr use by T.S. members. However, founder Knapheide has high and mighty ambitions: Quoth he, "T.S. as an international fan club is going to do the same job on an international scale that the Little Men have been trying to do on a local level, i.e., to raise the intellectual level of fandom. We hope to give the NFFF an intellectual run for their money. Knapheide by the way considers Ed Hamilton's CAPTAIN FUTURE series as the tops in literate science fiction. ON CLAUDE DEGLER Seven years ago, a young man who used several pseudonyms in addition to the name above which may be legally his made a "goodwill tour of fandom" for the benefit of a new organization called the Cosmic Circle. As a result of his little jaunt, he was tossed out of half the fan clubs and homes in the USA, --- 9 ---
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